Commentaries on the Laws of England ...Bancroft-Whitney, 1890 |
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... doctrine well illus- trated by Cicero , who compares the world to a great theatre , which is common to the public , and yet the place which any man has taken is for the time his own . But when mankind increased in number , craft and ...
... doctrine well illus- trated by Cicero , who compares the world to a great theatre , which is common to the public , and yet the place which any man has taken is for the time his own . But when mankind increased in number , craft and ...
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... doctrine of the law of England , with relation to treasure trove.i * But this method , of one man's abandoning his prop- erty , and another seising the vacant possession , how- ever well founded in theory , could not long subsist in ...
... doctrine of the law of England , with relation to treasure trove.i * But this method , of one man's abandoning his prop- erty , and another seising the vacant possession , how- ever well founded in theory , could not long subsist in ...
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... doctrine of escheats is adopted in almost every country whereby the sovereign of the state , and those who claim under his authority , are the ulti- mate heirs , and succeed to those inheritances , to which no other title can be formed ...
... doctrine of escheats is adopted in almost every country whereby the sovereign of the state , and those who claim under his authority , are the ulti- mate heirs , and succeed to those inheritances , to which no other title can be formed ...
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... doctrine that actual occupancy is essential to perfect the title to land newly discovered and vacant . ( Puff . 1 , 4 , c . 4 ; Vat . 1. 1 , c . 15 ; Grotius , 1. 2 , c . 3. ) It is impor- tant to remark that , so far at least as ...
... doctrine that actual occupancy is essential to perfect the title to land newly discovered and vacant . ( Puff . 1 , 4 , c . 4 ; Vat . 1. 1 , c . 15 ; Grotius , 1. 2 , c . 3. ) It is impor- tant to remark that , so far at least as ...
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... doctrine of the title to land was mod- ified by feudal and Roman notions . It has been a fruitful theme of controversy how these changes were to be accounted for or expressed in the form of a principle ; what new element has been added ...
... doctrine of the title to land was mod- ified by feudal and Roman notions . It has been a fruitful theme of controversy how these changes were to be accounted for or expressed in the form of a principle ; what new element has been added ...
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Página 290 - The present capacity of taking effect in possession, if the possession were to become vacant, and not the certainty that the possession will become vacant before the estate limited in remainder determines, universally distinguishes a vested remainder from one that is contingent.
Página 3 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Página 481 - Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things ; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour : and this was a testimony in Israel.
Página 9 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Página 198 - October, 1845, all corporeal tenements and hereditaments shall, as regards the conveyance of the immediate freehold thereof, be deemed to lie in grant as well as in livery...
Página 9 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 444 - ... a trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
Página 768 - Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.
Página 152 - Temple speaks, a sort of people in a condition of downright servitude, used and employed in the most servile works, and belonging, both they, their children, and effects, to the lord of the soil, like the rest of the cattle or stock upon it.
Página 421 - Bold words ! but, though the beast of game The privilege of chase may claim, Though space and law the stag we lend Ere hound we slip or bow we bend, Who ever recked, where, how, or when The prowling fox was trapped or slain...